$29 billion Metro Atlanta wish list goes to GDOT | News

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ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Regional Commission Friday submitted a wish list of $29 billion in transportation improvement projects to be funded from about $8 billion to be raised in the metro region by a proposed sales tax.

The Georgia Department of Transportation and a roundtable of local elected officials will pare down the list to highway and transit projects that fit the revenue that would become available if Atlanta-area voters approve a referendum in August of next year levying a 1-cent sales tax dedicated to transportation.

The public will get a chance for input into the process this summer, with the list due to be finalized by mid-October under a timetable established in legislation passed by the General Assembly last year.

The wish list contains a variety of transportation improvements scattered across the region, including:

Two rail lines connecting Emory University to MARTA's Lindbergh station and linking the Doraville MARTA station to Gwinnett Arena

Improvements at the interchange of Interstates 285 and 20 on the west side of the Perimeter Highway

Widening Georgia 20 from Interstate 575 in Cherokee County to Georgia 400 in Forsyth County

An Atlanta Beltline connector trail linking the Freedom Parkway and South River trails via Stone Mountain and Lithonia

A new air traffic control tower at Cobb County Airport (McCollum Field) and new taxiways at Fulton County Airport

75 transit projects worth $13.5 billion

The list also envisions improvements to bicycle trails and two local general aviation airports. For the complete list, click here.